Vamık D. Volkan

Vamık D. Volkan is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author who extends clinical ideas about identity, mourning, and trauma to relations between large groups. Psychoanalysis, International Relations, and Diplomacy gathers the tools of large-group psychology and shows how they can inform work across political boundaries. Animal Killer follows the transmission of war trauma from one generation to the next through a sustained clinical case. Immigrants and Refugees examines migration, perennial mourning, prejudice, and border psychology, while Life After Loss addresses grief. Nazi Legacy studies inherited memory, dissociation, and action; Would-Be Wife Killer stays closer to primitive mental functions within individual treatment. For public conflict, Psychoanalysis, International Relations, and Diplomacy offers the broadest framework; Animal Killer gives the transgenerational argument a concentrated human form.